Patang Farooqi

Patang Farooqi (13 June 1972-) was the co-founder of the Islamic Organization of the United Kingdom (IOUK) with Lawangin Kashmiri Shaikh.

Biography
Patang Farooqi was born on 13 June 1972 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England to Nadir Farooqi and Amina Said, two Sunni Muslim immigrants from Pakistan. He was educated at a public school, but he gained a negative reputation for cutting classes in favor of attending prayers at a local mosque. Farooqi became a devout Muslim and opposed the secular society of the United Kingdom, hoping to make England into a Muslim country along with the other British Isles. Farooqi met Lawangin Kashmiri Shaikh in 2007, and in 2008 they both founded the Islamic Organization of the United Kingdom (IOUK), an organization with links to al-Qaeda that sought to promote the idea of sharia law in Britain. He became the owner of the Sharia 4 UK website, the main website for the IOUK. He was sanctioned by the United States for his alleged funding of Islamic terrorist groups, and Farooqi was open in his support of Hizb ut-Tahrir and al-Qaeda, among other radical jihadist groups. In 2012 he was put on a no-fly list to the USA a year after IOUK was banned as a terrorist group.